Eric Rohmer Articles

Isabelle Adjani: Best Actress César Winner Hollywood star Harrison Ford received the 2010 Honorary César, presented to him by his Working Girl co-star Sigourney Weaver (above), one of the stars of James Cameron's box-office phenomenon Avatar. Ford was greeted by a long standing ovation. After several minutes trying to stem the applause, Ford said that "France reinvented cinema through the New Wave. And the American [...]

To watch an Eric Rohmer film is to watch life unfold on the screen. I'm not sure if Rohmer, who died earlier today at the age of 89, would be happy to have his oeuvre described as such, but that's exactly what it felt like to me while watching, say, Autumn Tale (1998), Boyfriends and Girlfriends (1987), or My Night at Maud's (above, 1969). Not [...]

In Emmanuel Mouret's quietly observant Un baiser s'il vous plaît / Shall We Kiss? (literally, "A Kiss, If You Please"), which opens today in Los Angeles, a young, good-looking couple, Émilie and Gabriel (Julie Gayet and Michaël Cohen), meet accidentally and are just about ready to go for some physical intimacy when Judith decides to tell Gabriel a story. See, she's in a relationship. But [...]